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After removing third-party image-hosting services from its apps, Twitter is now looking to do the same with video, according to a report. According to AllThingsD, the San Francisco-based startup is thinking of building its own video-hosting technolog...

This week's most popular photos re-tweeted in the English language were a mixed bunch, peppered with both tragedy and comedy. Unfortunately, the most re-tweeted picture was of a tragic young victim of brutality, and another one was a picture of a mis...

Roughly 24 million photos were tweeted from English-language Twitter accounts for the week ending Nov. 24, according to real-time photo search engine Skylines. Per usual, many of the most-retweeted photos were originally distributed by popular singer...

Twitter is known for its sub-140 character bursts of commentary, but there are a fair amount of photos that get passed around as well on the network. How many? About 20 million a week, according to Skylines, an Amsterdam-based company that bills itse...

New stats show that Twitter has taken over the picture-sharing market from third-party apps such as TwitPic and Yfrog. Third-party apps used to be the only way users could share images through the social network, however, Twitter jumped into the aren...

A picture of the Empire State Building bathed in rainbow lights is spreading like wildfire, thanks to the tonight's passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York. And while New York's tallest building is rainbow colored at the moment, it...

Reports surfaced this week alleging that Yfrog's email-to-upload feature had a security hole that could have been responsible for Rep. Anthony Weiner's alleged "hack" in which a lewd photo was sent from his Twitter account to a Seattle College studen...

By now, most people know that the lewd photo sent from the Twitter feed of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner to a Seattle college student was posted via ImageShack's image-/video-hosting service, Yfrog. What's become apparent in recent days is that Yfrog ...

Twitter's announcement of its own photo-sharing service puts quite a few third-party photo-sharing services in a bind. Apps such as Twitpic, Twitgoo and Yfrog have long been employed by users wishing to show images to their Twitter followers. In fact...

The rumor mill has been churning Monday afternoon with reports that Twitter is working on its own photo-sharing service that would compete with the likes of Twitpic and Yfrog. TechCrunch first reported the tip, citing multiple unnamed sources, Monday...

YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. If you want to upload a video on the Internet, pretty much anyone will default to the web's standard. And why shouldn't they? YouTube has been the platform for viral sensations, from huge brands (Old Spice) to kid musicians...

As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we're taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is "Best Social Media Service for Small Business." Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships ar...

The 2010 Emmy Awards are this Sunday, and NBC is using the ceremony to embrace social media in a big way. NBC is using services such as Twitter, yfrog and Ustream to bring a more real-time experience to the event. These services will also let fans an...

"140-character status updates to a network of followers." That makes Twitter sound simple. But in fact, the social information platform has grown to be much more complex than its 140 character-limit suggests. The site not only connects people, but ha...

The yfrog Twitter image-sharing service can now simultaneously post to MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. You don't have to go to each website to share that vacation pic you took; just select your image, check the boxes for the services you want to send ...

Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday's poll, where we asked your favorite Twitter photo-sharing service. Is your favorite s...

Gather 'round, social media lovers, for 'tis time for this week's Lunchtime Poll! As you may know by now, the way it works is simple. We'll throw out a poll question, start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable, and let you fine fol...

DailyBooth is a photo sharing site that has been growing in popularity, as it easily lets you capture a photo of yourself via webcam and share it on Twitter. Now, one of the largest photo sharing services for Twitter – yFrog – has just added a dead-s...

Social media users are reported to be narcissists, so it’s not too surprising that the most shared types of photos and videos on the site involve faces, people, and self-portraits. This according to yfrog, a photo and video upload service for Twitter...

The most popular URL shortener on Twitter just teamed up with Imageshack's Yfrog. Could this spell trouble for TwitPic? In a blog post earlier today, Bit.ly revealed several major companies using its API (application programming interface) to share t...

Photos are so last year. Sharing video on Twitter is the new cool thing, and it's becoming so popular that we're seeing an uprising of services that are aiming to help us do just that. We recently wrote about 5 Ways to Share Images on Twitter and 5 G...

Josh Catone is a writer, editor, and entrepreneur from Providence, Rhode Island. He is a social media enthusiast and the founder of the web's largest Ruby on Rails community, Rails Forum. You can follow him on Twitter. As the web moves toward its rea...

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